˜yĐÄvlog

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-ible

  1. variant of -able, occurring in words borrowed from Latin ( credible; horrible; visible ), or modeled on the Latin type ( reducible ).


-ible

suffix forming adjectives

  1. a variant of -able
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Derived Forms

  • -ibly, suffix:forming_adverbs
  • -ibility, suffix:forming_nouns
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of -ible1

< Latin -ibil ( is ) or -Ä«ČúŸ±±ô ( is ), equivalent to -i- or -Ä«- thematic vowel + -bilis -ble
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And that’s where we found Ible, a Taiwanese company that created a very specific kind of wearable.

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This holiday season, retail analysts say there has been a dis­cern­ible shift in gift-giving as Americans think beyond traditional presents.

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Shanmugam, who argues before federal appeals courts across the country, said more and more offer either live audio or same-day release of recordings, with no dis­cern­ible effect.

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“At the end of the day, I would suspect that Nancy Pelosi is going to have to explain, what is the dis­cern­ible difference between Al Franken and John Conyers?”

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We posed that question in October — yes, only last month — after a man with an arsenal of guns and no dis­cern­ible motive holed up in a Las Vegas hotel room and killed 58 people in the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.

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